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MIT Roofnet

Posted by michael on from the can't-use-the-fireplace dept.

prostoalex writes "MIT Technology Review runs a story about MIT Computer science students building their own mesh network for Internet access: 'A few weeks ago, MIT graduate student Shan Sinha canceled his broadband Internet service. Now his Net connection comes through the chimney. From a computer in the living room of his Cambridge, MA, apartment, a few blocks from the MIT campus, a cable goes into the fireplace up to the roof, where it is attached to an antenna. From there, data packets hop to another roof-mounted antenna at a nearby student's apartment. That way, from roof to roof in multiple hops, Sinha's data packets finally reach a gateway--a computer connected to the fixed Internet--at MIT's computer science building.'"

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  2. Yes.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But does it run linux?

  3. Re:Early Post!! by proctorg76 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I guess I can settle for 6'th though

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  4. In Soviet Russia... by proctorg76 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Linux runs YOU!!!

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  5. Chicken Feces Can Fuel Our Future! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Chicken feces for fuel?

    Go into a supermarket on any given day, and you're likely to find fresh eggs for sale. Something had to have made these eggs! But what could it have been? Oh yes, Chickens! Well chickens offer much more than food in the form of eggs. One magical word: feces . Much of their feces is put to good use. Piles of it are mixed with soil which compost to form a healthy organic fertilizer for the veggies, fruits, and other plants that end up in your store. Much of chicken's feces could go to another good use: fuel! That's right.

    The next time you pull up to KFC or some other place that serves steaming hot chicken wings, consider this: Chickens are amazing creatures. They can make great pets, they are wonderful food when properly prepared, offer even more food in the form of eggs, they provide feathers for food, and feces as manure! But their feces can be used for fuel too! Why aren't we paying attention to all the useful things around us and making use of them?

    I don't want to spend money on gasoline for a car, I want to pack a properly built system for a newer car full of chicken feces, drive off to KFC and eat some good crunchy chicken, stop by and pick up some eggs for tomorrow's breakfast, and rest my head on a pillow filled with comfortable feathers.

    Chicken feces is the future.